Fees and funding

What Forward costs, and what that price is buying

Cost is the second question every applicant asks. This page answers it in the same voice as the rest of the site: the structure in full, the commitments in writing, and no figure invented to fill a gap.

Scholarships and payment plans Intake dates and deadlines

Where the numbers are

The founding-intake fee schedule is set by the governing body and published on the day applications open for that intake, alongside the full funding list. Until that schedule is signed off, this page publishes the billing structure and the commitments rather than a number we would have to correct later. Everything marked Confirmed before the founding intake is a real line on the schedule with its figure still to be confirmed.

By credential

How each credential is charged

Forward bills in the smallest honest unit for each pathway, so that a student who accelerates or steps out for a cycle pays for what they actually studied.

Degrees

Bachelor's degree, Path One (Term Model)

Two terms of six months per academic year. Tuition is charged per term, so a student who accelerates through fewer terms pays for fewer terms.

Billed as: Per term of six months

Bachelor's degree, Path One (Term Model) fee lines
Line	Amount
Tuition per termTeaching, assessment, moderation and the Forward Core requirements graded inside your modules.	Confirmed before the founding intake
Functional fees per academic yearRegistration, examination, laboratory and studio consumables, library access, identity card.	Confirmed before the founding intake
Cooperative-education administrationCharged once, covering placement matching, employer assessment moderation and the co-op adviser.	Confirmed before the founding intake

Included

Every module in the published programme structure, including the Forward Core
A named academic adviser and a named co-op adviser from week one
Amagezi, the AI tutor, for the whole of your registration
Both transcripts: the academic record and the capability record
One resit per module at no additional charge

Not included

Accommodation. Residences are Phase Three of the master plan; verified off-campus options are published with real prices
Travel to and from a cooperative-education placement
Personal equipment beyond the published programme kit list

How Path One works

Degrees

Bachelor's degree, Path Two (Block Model)

One unit at a time, four weeks at a time. Tuition is charged per block, which is the fairest unit for a student who steps out for a cycle and returns.

Billed as: Per four-week block

Bachelor's degree, Path Two (Block Model) fee lines
Line	Amount
Tuition per blockOne unit taught, assessed and moderated inside its four weeks.	Confirmed before the founding intake
Functional fees per academic yearRegistration, examination, laboratory and studio consumables, library access, identity card.	Confirmed before the founding intake
Cooperative-education administrationCharged once, covering placement matching, employer assessment moderation and the co-op adviser.	Confirmed before the founding intake

Included

Every block in the published programme structure, including the Forward Core
A named academic adviser and a named co-op adviser from week one
Amagezi, the AI tutor, for the whole of your registration
Both transcripts: the academic record and the capability record
One resit per block at no additional charge

Not included

Accommodation. Residences are Phase Three of the master plan
Travel to and from a cooperative-education placement
Personal equipment beyond the published programme kit list

How Path Two works

Bridging year

Higher Education Certificate (The Bridge)

One intensive academic year of two semesters, 42 credit units, across the General, Physical Sciences and Biological Sciences tracks. All three tracks are charged identically: the science tracks carry laboratory consumables inside the functional fee rather than as a surcharge.

Billed as: Per semester, two semesters in the year

Higher Education Certificate (The Bridge) fee lines
Line	Amount
Tuition per semesterSix modules per semester, taught by the University's own staff to the University's own standard.	Confirmed before the founding intake
Functional fees for the yearRegistration, supervised examinations, laboratory consumables on FU-HEP and FU-HEB, library access.	Confirmed before the founding intake

Included

All twelve modules of your track, with feedback inside ten working days
Amagezi, the AI tutor, used to strengthen you and never to substitute for you
Degree-choice counselling from the second semester onwards
Supervised closed examinations with no separate examination charge

Not included

The degree you progress into. That is charged under the degree schedule above
UNEB verification or NCHE equating charges levied by those bodies directly

The Bridge in full

Technical and vocational

Forward College certificates and diplomas

Charged per stage, because every College programme is built from micro-credentials that certify separately. A learner who stops keeps everything already earned.

Billed as: Per stage, per micro-credential group

Forward College certificates and diplomas fee lines
Line	Amount
Tuition per stageWorkshop time, tools, consumables and assessment on the tools rather than on paper.	Confirmed before the founding intake
Recognition of Prior Learning assessmentDuring the pilot years a first RPL attempt carries no fee at all.	No charge

Included

Every micro-credential inside the stage you paid for, certified separately
The AI and Digital Practice Spine across all eight clusters
First Recognition of Prior Learning attempt, free during the pilot years

Not included

Personal protective equipment beyond the issued set
Trade-test charges levied directly by UVTAB

College fees in detail

Commitments

What holds whatever the figures are

These are the parts of the fee policy that do not depend on the schedule being signed off.

The fee you enrol on is the fee for your cohort

Forward publishes fees per intake and does not raise them inside a cohort. If the schedule changes, it changes for the next intake, not for students already registered.

The cooperative-education placement is paid work, not billed study

The compulsory twelve-month placement is paid by the employer and assessed by the University. It is not charged as tuition, and no student pays Forward for the privilege of working.

You pay for what you actually study

Term Model tuition is charged per term and Block Model tuition per block. A student who accelerates pays less in total, and the Accelerate Calculator shows exactly how that moves.

Nobody is charged for a resit they were never taught for

One resit per module or block is included. Where a failure follows a teaching failure on our side, the retake is free and the incident is recorded on the accountability page.

Published before applications, not after offers

The full schedule for an intake is published before that intake opens for applications, so no applicant accepts an offer without knowing the cost.

The refusal list, on money

What we will not do

The same discipline we apply to what we will not teach, applied to how we charge.

No agent commissions paid per recruited head, anywhere in the world.
No fee increase inside a cohort once that cohort has enrolled.
No compulsory bundled charges dressed up as optional extras.
No withholding of a transcript already earned over an administrative balance dispute that is under appeal.
No unpaid placements counted towards the cooperative-education requirement.

Living costs for international applicants are estimated separately on the international students page, and the effect of pacing on your total cost is modelled in the Accelerate Calculator.

Funding, then dates

Every award Forward offers, and the intake calendar that governs when you have to decide.

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